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The New Anxiety
The 300+ year technologies built to capture, understand and connect the world - from maps through geostationary satellites to contemporary algorithms and big data collection - have been exposed as weapons-grade systems that pluralise reality and destabilise the present. How does living in this new anxious world feel, and how deep do these systems take root?
12.08.22__________________________________________________________
Revisit the highlights of VIRTUALLYREALITY SS21: 'The Long Triumph' now.
Our twelve-week online festival featured 40+ artists, creatives and thinkers in our most expansive project to date. 2022 also saw some of our commissioned work in show at Berlin's Atonal Festival and Den Haag's Rewire.
07.05.21__________________________________________________________
VIRTUALLYREALITY SS21: The Long Triumph is here. Subscribe to our mailer now.
Over 10 sprawling weeks online, SS21 addresses the knowing sprawl of a world that has been machinicly shaped, and how we might rethink our worldly engagements during and after times of emergency.
28.10.19__________________________________________________________
Relive the highlights of VIRTUALLYREALITY SS19 above.
Featuring exclusive footage from our April-June 2019 series celebrating the raucousness, intimacy and hybridised nature of much 21st Century performance.
14.10.19__________________________________________________________
Watch Callum Coomber's time-collapsing performance of Catherine Lamb's Point/Wave.
Recorded at Hallé St. Michael's as part our event 'SWAN'.
11.06.19__________________________________________________________
Listen back to the round-up of VIRTUALLYREALITY SS19 direct from the NTS Manchester studio.
Featuring an exclusive first-play from bod [包家巷], plus composer and musician Jennifer Walshe in conversation with Michael Brailey.